Associations between Parenting and Socioeconomic Stress with Child Health Behaviors Among a Sample of Ethnically Diverse Children with Elevated Body Mass Index

Linear regression models showed that caregiver cumulative stress (food insecurity, housing insecurity, perceived financial stress, parenting stress, and stressful life events scores) was significantly associated with concurrent caregiver depression, poor child eating behaviors, and poor physical activity habits among ethnically diverse school-age children with elevated BMI (p<.001).